58 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



of the globe, — which no outward conditions can 

 modify or improve, — and a Being equally 

 adapted to the whole habitable world, with 

 powers, however undeveloped, of comparison, 

 of reflection, of judgment, of reason, with a 

 sense of right and wrong, — and with all these 

 capable of accumulated acquisition, and there- 

 fore of indefinite advance. It is not true to 

 affirm that these characteristics stand wholly 

 apart — separated by an " enormous gulf " — 

 from his physical organization. There is an 

 adjustment between these peculiarities of Mind 

 and the special peculiarities of his Frame as 

 nice, and as obvious to sense and reason, as 

 there is between the ferocious disposition of a 

 Tiger and his powerful claws, or between the 

 retractile character of these and his soft and 



